Javier Blanque wrote:
Postgresql is a very good DBMS.
http://www.postgresql.org/
I was going to suggest it myself, because even though psql is powerful
you don't actually need to USE that power. All the "cute and cuddly"
database implementations I have tried out are small because they suck,
Ross Vumbaca wrote:
Hi,
Ole-Egil Hvitmyren wrote:
To clarify that, the a1bootloader isn't just using routines from GRUB,
it is based around the same idea. It's a kind of GRUB for UBoot,
currently only useful if you use RDB partition maps, but technically
you can stuff it into an M
Ross Vumbaca wrote:
Hi,
Sven Luther wrote:
The a1boot loader (which we call "SLB") makes use of GPL code for the
ext2/3 reading routines (taken from GRUB), so it will be GPL'd too.
Cool. So i could try porting it to the pegasos ?
What is the point of that? It's written for UBoot firmware,
Jesus Climent wrote:
On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 11:00:49AM +0200, Ole-Egil Hvitmyren wrote:
Dean Hamstead wrote:
Everything I _use_ is running sid. The only machines running something
else are two PRePs, one with Woody and one with Sarge, and those are
only kept around because I used to
Dean Hamstead wrote:
i would just upgrade your whole system to unstable
its not actually unstable, just not ridiculously conservatively
stable
I still think we need to find better names for them. "stable" sounds
like "is not crashing", which means "unstable" sounds like "is
crashing". I thin
Ole-Egil Hvitmyren wrote:
and it should be compilable with GCC 3.3.
Oooh, I didn't notice that. It's been fixed :-)
--
AmigaOne dev list FAQ (when I say F, I mean F):
http://www.samfundet.no/~olegil/amiga/
Sven Luther wrote:
On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 11:14:28PM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote:
On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, Ole-Egil Hvitmyren wrote:
Since I'm no kernel hacker I'm not the guy to bug about this. Like I
said, I can help with patches to kernel-package and amiga-fdisk. Kernel
is not my fie
Christoph Hellwig wrote:
On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 10:35:54PM +0200, Ole-Egil Hvitmyren wrote:
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
Which is why it would help to be IBM or one of the other big players.
Does it look like I'm shitting hardware? ;-)
That has nothing to do with big players a
Jens Schmalzing wrote:
Hi,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt writes:
U-Boot comes with a tool that does more or less the same as
mkvmlinuz, called mkimage (takes in an elf and an optional ramdisk
image and outputs a bootable image)
That's crap. Fine for embedded maybe, but it should really be able
to
Jens Schmalzing wrote:
Hi,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt writes:
Can't uboot load the ramdisk separately like yaboot can ?
Duh, I must have misunderstood this then. So uboot is the bootloader
for AmigaOne? Then it should be taught to load an uncompressed kernel
and a separate ramdisk from a rea
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
Which is why it would help to be IBM or one of the other big players.
Does it look like I'm shitting hardware? ;-)
That has nothing to do with big players at all.
Are you saying I have more money than IBM? I would certainly hope not ;-)
Seriously, I think Eyet
Christoph Hellwig wrote:
On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 11:51:43AM +0200, Ole-Egil Hvitmyren wrote:
The firmware is U-Boot, so the kernel needs a bit of patching. Most of
the guys working on the Linux kernel got tied up in writing stuff for
AmigaOS4. It seems to me that unless one happens to be IBM
Jens Schmalzing wrote:
Hi,
Turbo Fredriksson writes:
Anyone have an idea how to get 'official' support for the AmigaONE
in Debian GNU/Linux?
Implement it.
If the kernel source needs patching, try to get the patch into the
main kernel.org tree, or the Debian kernel-source package, or the
D
Cedric Pradalier wrote:
According to Albert Cahalan, on 13 May 2004 11:31:39 -0400,
On Thu, 2004-05-13 at 11:30, Rob Latham wrote:
On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 06:22:39PM -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote:
forget about streaming video and flash
mplayer and mplayer-plugin make streaming video a litt
Jens Schmalzing wrote:
Hi,
Sylvain Joyeux writes:
I begin to understand why some new linux people prefer going back
to windows ...
Try that on a PowerPC machine :)
On my RS/6k that's perfectly possible, but there's a slight lack of
useful applications for WinNT4.0 PowerPC...
On my other
Michel Dänzer wrote:
On Wed, 2004-03-24 at 09:26, Ole-Egil Hvitmyren wrote:
Michel Dänzer wrote:
On Wed, 2004-03-24 at 03:02, Viktor Rosenfeld wrote:
Minor gotcha: I switched the X mouse device from /dev/gpmdata (I had gpm
repeat mouse events) to /dev/input/mice, because I remember
Michel Dänzer wrote:
On Wed, 2004-03-24 at 03:02, Viktor Rosenfeld wrote:
Minor gotcha: I switched the X mouse device from /dev/gpmdata (I had gpm
repeat mouse events) to /dev/input/mice, because I remember reading that
with the new 2.6 kernel more than one processes can listen to mouse
events
Iain Georgeson wrote:
Segher Boessenkool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
The badge says "RISC System/6000 380"
This IBM system has a 59MHz POWER2 cpu.
One other question: This machine has nothing I recognise as a monitor
connector. It does has (left to right)
2 x 25 pin male D-types labelled
Thomas Otto wrote:
Or, wait to see if somebody else here has an easier way.
;-)
I would say you just boot your current system with the parameter
'init=/bin/bash', then do an fsck of the root fs, remount the root
parition read-write and try to fix it.
Now that sounds a _lot_ easier : you'll
Thomas Otto wrote:
We haven't got a boot selector yet. The environment can point to
exactly one partition for booting, and if I've read it right it will
load the first file on that - it has to be a PReP partition, and since
it doesn't have a filesystem I guess there's only ever one file.
Alter
Sven Luther wrote:
On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 06:59:48AM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote:
On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 11:20:39AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
Hello,
Is there still people using the 2.2 kernel packages with testing or
unstable ? I don't speak about the 2.2 packages which came with stable.
I
Chris Tillman wrote:
On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 01:39:42PM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote:
using debian stable for the last year now... and am still stuck with
mozilla 1.0.0 .. are there any other apt-sources that i can add such
that i can update mozilla to 1.4 - or even better get a binary of
Ph
Tim Froggatt wrote:
Try to install SDL. I found more or less the same problems running
applications directly against oss/alsa as you do on the SB Live!, but
when I went through the SDL sound wrapper it worked.
libsdll is already installed apparently. Is it possible to get all programs to
Tim Froggatt wrote:
How do I select oss or esd output? Does each application have to specifically
support them, because I haven't found any options?
Usually it's autodetected. Arts/esd is used if possible, if not the
application will try oss. But it's on an app to app basis :-(
I've foun
Sven Luther wrote:
On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 05:05:04PM +0200, Rose Humphrey wrote:
Le dimanche, 3 aoû 2003, à 09:45 Europe/Paris, Sven Luther a écrit :
On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 03:21:41AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
No, as I said, this _won't_ work in general. Some low level
ini
Michel Dänzer wrote:
On Sat, 2003-08-02 at 13:38, Simon Vallet wrote:
I consider purchasing a graphic card for my beige G3. Is it possible
to simply pick a "PC" card, or are there any hardware incompatibilities
which would prevent it from working ?
Not hardware per se, but the firmwa
Rose Humphrey wrote:
Le mardi, 29 juil 2003, à 14:18 Europe/Paris, Fred Heitkamp a écrit :
It the AmigaOne available? I thought it was pulled from the market?
Yes, at the same time Debian stopped supporting PowerPC
(can I hit him? Please?)
Sure, go ahead. But only with the _small_ st
Sven Luther wrote:
On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 01:58:02PM +0200, Ole-Egil Hvitmyren wrote:
Sven Luther wrote:
The AmigaOne currently eats whatever you throw at it (well, as long as
you only throw MBR and RDB at it :-)), but I use MBR because that's what
Nice.
I think so
Sven Luther wrote:
On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 12:43:12PM +0200, Ole-Egil Hvitmyren wrote:
Tim Froggatt wrote:
Hi... I'm running Woody on a G3 based AmigaOne board.
I'm trying to get my TerraTec 128i PCI sound card up and running with
ALSA. However, I can't seem to
Tim Froggatt wrote:
Hi... I'm running Woody on a G3 based AmigaOne board.
I'm trying to get my TerraTec 128i PCI sound card up and running with
ALSA. However, I can't seem to find any module files. In particular I
need snd-es1938.o or atleast I think that's what I need.
But I can't find the
Michel Dänzer wrote:
On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 12:17, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote:
On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 02:32, Michel Dänzer wrote:
On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 18:42, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote:
On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 14:30, Michel Dänzer wrote:
On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 14:02, Soeren Son
(sorry for moving the discussion, but I really only want to add
something about my experience as a support-line for a few hundred
AmigaOne users this past year).
Also, this posting is a bit long and posted a bit early in the morning
(from a subjective point of view, it's actually 9.30 in the p
Kent West wrote:
Steven Schlansker wrote:
How do you reconfigure the network interfaces, for example to use
static addresses instead of DHCP?
Thanks,.
Steven
Edit /etc/network/interfaces. See "man interfaces" for details. Here's
an example:
# /etc/network/interfaces -- configuration fil
Michael Schmitz wrote:
My config is attached. This was using GCC 3.0 on kernel-source-2.4.20-7.
Is gcc 3.x required for powerpc kernels now? The ix86 kernels still
recommend 2.95 FWIW.
I haven't seen any mention that you shouldn't run a 3.recent gcc, just
that gcc 2.95.something i
José Leônidas Bier Brasileiro wrote:
Hello There!
I just installed Debian and KDe in my 233 iMac (after a few bumps) and
I'm amazed with its looks and speed. I enjoyed a lot knowing that
"there is intellingent life outside of Windows/Office".
But I can't configure may USB printer and I don'
Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Sven Luther wrote:
it means that the kernel-patch-2.4.20-powerpc is in truth pmac only, and
should better be named kernel-patch-2.4.20-powerpc-pmac or something such ?
Or am i missing something ?
I have yet to see hardware-specific kerne
Gregory Seidman wrote:
On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 01:25:43AM -0700, Eric Pretorious wrote:
} I'm looking for a Integrated Development Environment or a GUI-editor with
} syntax highlighting/coloring for scripting in PHP/Perl/HTML/Javascript
} files in KDE. Are there any that stand-out from the res
Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra wrote:
On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 11:52:17 +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
Yep, the G3 600MHz is fanless :))), too bad it is only a 750Cxe, and not
the better 750Fx, which should run cooler yet at higher speeds.
Yet the Apple Cube was a fanless G4... grante
Rose Humphrey wrote:
Le mar 17/06/2003 à 10:44, Sven Luther a écrit :
They will survive, at least the chances are greater for Genesi to
survive than for Amiga.
Tssst tssst, what were you saying about FUD? (I'd still like to see
the Pegasos II tested for a while before recommending one f
Rogério Brito wrote:
Please, limit your lines to 80 characters at most (72 is
preferred).
And what's with your tabs? ;-)
On Jun 17 2003, Kristian Peters wrote:
Could someone tell me if the latest 2.4.21-ben is out ? I'd really
like to see a patch or something similar a
Sven Luther wrote:
On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 10:37:32PM +0200, Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti
Dutra wrote:
I don't expect it to do any graphics: what I want is a free (as in
speech), silent, energy-efficient, beautiful server. It will do Samba
Well, a G3 altough somewhat slower than
Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra wrote:
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 09:12:44 +0200, Rose Humphrey wrote:
Le lun 16/06/2003 à 01:02, Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra a
écrit :
Currently your best bet is the AmigaOne (Teron PX), simply because there's
a lot more emphasis on making it int
Richard Cochinos wrote:
I get this mesage trying to install squirrelmail, does anyoneknow how to
fix it? I don't think this is a bug b/c I'm running woody...
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Setting up squirrelmail (1.2.6-1.3) ...
Automatically configuring apache.
In
Sven Luther wrote:
Hello, ...
Yesterday, i tried to build a kernel-image ppc/pegasos package with
make-kpkg. The built went well, but no package was created and i didn't
see any particular message in the log that could explains this, in
particular, there was no error. So, is make-kpkg supposed
Sven Luther wrote:
I agree, though. Just thought the whole "small bunch of people who
should be running macos x" seemed a little misplaced :-)
Well, it was voluntary provocative, and i think it most assuredly how
nvidia will think. And anyway, i guess you can count the people running
non
Sven Luther wrote:
On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 01:58:18PM -0500, Orion Buckminster Montoya wrote:
If we're going to get other GNU/Linux user lists involved, we should
be banding together to exert more pressure on nVidia to release specs
to Free Software developers. A binary-only solution is a w
Leandro Noferini wrote:
From: Leandro Noferini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Trouble
To: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org
Summary:
Keywords:
User-Agent: tin/1.5.17-20030301 ("Bubbles") (UNIX) (Linux/2.4.20-ben10-int (ppc))
Ciao a tutti,
I got this error trying to dist-upgrade my sid:
update-
Björn Johansson wrote:
Hi!
I'm going to buy a Mac in a not far away future.
So I'm wondering what Macs works best with
Debian3.0? How about this one?
12,1-tums TFT XGA-screen
800 MHz PowerPC G3
512 K L2-cache (vid 800 MHz)
256 MB SDRAM-memory
30 GB Ultra ATA-unit
DVD/CD-RW-unit
ATI Mobility Ra
Chris Tillman wrote:
On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 11:31:00PM +0100, Ivo Bellin Salarin wrote:
hi all!
i am searching for a kernel for a ppc 604e with a carolina
motherboard/chipset. is the kernel shipped with debian stable good for this? or
I have to download something different and/or patches?
David Ulrich wrote:
Hi,
Is there a dnetc app for RC5 prject on debian powerpc?
Thx
Whatcha mean "on debian powerpc"? The only place the dnetc client should
be downloaded is from distributed.org.
I am currently getting 2.3Mkeys/s RC5 and 9.0Mnodes/s OGR on my AmigaOne
running 2.4.19 and De
Nicolai Langfeldt wrote:
255 root 7 -5 796 616 556 S < 0.0 0.9 0:00 diald
268 root 9 0 736 564 536 S0.0 0.9 0:00 gpm
If X is working, gpm is useless. Do you use a modem? If not remove diald.
Begone, foul dæmon!!! Gpm is the best thing to happen since slice
Rogério Brito wrote:
On Jan 19 2003, Craig Morehouse wrote:
Has anyone tried running Linux on this poard?
If successful, please reply both on-list and off, if you don't mind.
Please, forgive my ignorance on the subject, but I see that
lately people are talking more an
Sven Luther wrote:
On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 05:23:32PM -0500, Allan Streib wrote:
On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, David Zhou wrote:
Pine is perfectly alright in that it's pretty easy to use. It's not
free, but then again, the question didn't have free as a requirement.
Pine is free as in
Philip Larkin Waters wrote:
What is Woody?
The current "stable" version of Debian? This is after all
"debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org" ;-)
Michael Schmitz wrote:
It actually works under woody, but not under sid. At least what _I_
wanted to build worked...
What exactly didn't work unser sid? Anyway, the woody b-f are meant to be
built under woody.
make check fails.
dpkg-checkbuilddeps: Unmet build dependencies: libnewt-d
J Q Private wrote:
Michael,
Pardon my ignorance about a "complete set of boot
disks"
I burned a powerpc stable CD for woody binary 1
You aren't talking about just burning the other 6
CDs, are you? The first one worked well enough, it
shouldn't be any trouble to burn the others.
Chris Tillman wrote:
On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 10:11:33AM +1100, Ross Vumbaca wrote:
Hi,
The AmigaOne already runs Linux, I am running Debian 3.0. Other people
run SuSe. Actually I'd like to create a custom boot-floppy for it, so
installation of Debian 3.0 can be easy for end users
William Crowshaw wrote:
This may be good news for people like me who'd rather
not support Apple by buying their over-priced,
eye-candy hardware and yet still want to use a
PowerPC. The company that produces YDL is selling a
PowerPC motherboard and complete systems. Here's the
link with more in
Daniel Danu wrote:
Hi,
Can you tell me please what $$ and $! mean ?
Thanks,
Dan
from man bash:
$ Expands to the process ID of the shell. In a () subshell,
it expands to the process ID of the current shell, not the subshell.
! Expands to the process ID of the mos
Sven Luther wrote:
That said, on linux/ppc, it would be more logic to do this kind of
things in the fbdev modules or something such. I still prefer to have
the information and write it myself instead of depending on i386
firmware.
Yes, well. Ok for software, not so ok for firmware. Like thi
von Boehn, Gunnar wrote:
Hi Ole,
I heard that Eyetech will maybe bring out
AmigaOnes with integrated graphic.
Integrated GFX would make them a
perfect platform for building nice PPC webserver.
Do you know if this is true?
I haven't heard ANYTHING about it.
Is AGP/PCI slots really that m
von Boehn, Gunnar wrote:
Hello,
Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
Any problems?
Does Linux support all the chips in these motherboards?
I heard that the northbrigde which is used in the Amiga-One
and Pegasos has a bug which makes it loose data if you copy a lot.
As far as I know B
Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
Any problems? Does Linux support all the chips in these motherboards?
I'm interested in buying a ppc box and A1/Pegasos might be
my choise.. Please post your comments!
These machines are new, and the Linux port to AmigaOne is a work in
progress. It will suppor
Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
[Please CC to me, I'm not on the list!]
Hello!
Someone running Debian on AmigaOne or on Pegasos system?
Any problems? Does Linux support all the chips in these motherboards?
I'm interested in buying a ppc box and A1/Pegasos might be
my choise.. Please post your comments
Claas Langbehn wrote:
Hello Ole-Egil,
You said, you are already working on an AmigaOne.
I think it is a really interesting system which
just has been started to be shipped.
So, why don't you tell us about your experience
with AmigaOne and (Debian) Linux.
What about the hardware support with
Claas Langbehn wrote:
(our main OS isn't ready, and some hundred developers will have hardware
within a week or two. End user release aimed at the Linux crowd is
before christmas, both in G3 and G4 versions)
Morphos?
Are you talking about PEGASUS or about AmigaNG ?
Trust me, I
Alastair McKinstry wrote:
Hello,
Quick (hopefully simple) question: How do you tell the difference
between an Amiga and a Mac (both ppc machines) in a script ?
I need to distinguish them in picking keyboards correctly in
the console packages.
Thanks,
Alastair McKinstry
/proc/cpuinfo?
Daniel Danu wrote:
Hi,
I am new to the bash and mostly Linux scripts. Where I can find useful
information about the bash command syntax, like
exec > $build_log 2>&1and what does it really mean?
Many thanks,
Dan
I would suggest a good book, if I knew one. Just don't type "man bas
On Tue, 17 Sep 2002, Ondrej Certik wrote:
>
>--- Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Die, 2002-09-17 at 03:35, Chris Tillman wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > Why don't they just put a header on the sample
>> that indicates its endianness?
>> > IIRC that's how tiff works.
>> >
>>
>> I think end
Björn Johansson wrote:
Hi.
I have a really silly question here. I have now downloaded
and installed lha(stable version), but it won't extract
any of my LhA archives. I can test the archive, this goes
without any problems.
I'm using lha x archive.lha
Is this version of lha buggy or am I doing
Björn Johansson wrote:
Hi!
I need the following two programs:
LhA and a text based CD Player.
Do any of these exist in Debian3.0?
http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?searchon=names&keywords=lha
;-)
(I use lha all the time myself, being an amigadude :-) )
Lars Noodén wrote:
I've been trying this on a running system, perhaps that's why tar
doesn't work. I guess I could try the restore after booting from a
floppy disk instead when using an old world macintosh.
However, I'd like to avoid a boot-disk dependent method because the G4
I will eventu
Lars Noodén wrote:
What is the recommended best practice for backing up and restoring an
entire server - data, applications and all?
I've tried tarring /, the same method I've used for data, but the
machine (woody) doesn't boot after I un-tar it.
I don't see why tar wouldn't work, but note
On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, John F Davis wrote:
>I can get to virtual terminal 2 and cd/ls about the filesystem. I tried to
>mount /dev/scd0 (My cdrom?) but it says the filesystem is read only and it
>wont let me mount anything. Which is weird
>because, I can make a directory to mount the cdrom onto an
Claude BONFANTI wrote:
Hello,
I have bought few weeks ago an IBM RS/6000 43P workstation.
I wanted to change the operating system for Debian. So I looked on
the website to find where to download the corresponding ISO files to my
workstation model.
I must admit that it is much more
deFreese, Barry wrote:
O.K. so I'm trying to keep this thread alive :-).
When I run apt-get install kde, I keep getting messages that it fails to
pull down some files and then it says:
E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with
--fix-missing?
I have run apt-get upd
Chris Tillman wrote:
On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 04:56:59PM -0700, deFreese, Barry wrote:
At 4:38 PM -0700 7/30/02, deFreese, Barry wrote:
O.K., I fixed my XFree86 problem and am now running 4.1.0.1. Now my
question is, how do I get it running in 1024x768 or 1280x1024? I am using
the FBD
von Boehn, Gunnar wrote:
Hi Ole-Egil,
thank you very much for your fast answer.
[..] I happen to have an AmigaOne running Debian at home right now.
Where did you get this AmigaONE?
I wanted to buy a board from eyetech, but they said they will only
ship them when AMIGA OS4 is finished ev
von Boehn, Gunnar wrote:
Hi all,
I want to buy a PowerPC computer to run debian on and need some advice.
Good choice :-)
I'm running A1G3-SE and RS/6k already, and I'm not looking back to Intel ;-)
A friend of mine asked me if Linux is as stable on ppc as it is on Intel
the other day (wh
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